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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients

Harvard Business Review

Measuring outcomes requires redesigned workflows, enhanced coordination across departments, and investment in new resources. Invest time and resources. Engage senior leaders to build bridges across functions and commit resources that will drive long-term benefit. The change that’s needed can be overwhelming.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5 Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers.

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Getting Buy-In for Innovation that Doesn’t Fade at the End of the Quarter

Harvard Business Review

Consumer Healthcare Data Aggregation and Predictive Analytics business, and build awareness and adoption in order to achieve $X million revenues in 2014″ This fictitious example already signals that 2014 will be about building a product, marketing it, and demonstrating key customer willingness-to-pay by targeting a tangible revenue goal.

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Business Can Help End Child Labor

Harvard Business Review

I have always been fascinated by the question: How can for-profit corporations innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Growing up in India, I realized that the country has too few resources to confront its many challenges; the only way India can hope to solve its problems is through innovation.